William Wundt in depth

           Before William Wundt came along, psychology was not very scientific. It was Wundt who turned psychology into a science in 1879. He established the first lab in Germany and did an experiment. He did the experiment in order to measure perceptual processing. He measured the time it takes for people to press a button after they hear a bell ring. He found out that when you ask an average person to press a button when they hear the bell ring, it would take 1/10 of a second. On the other hand, if you ask them to press a button when they perceive that they heard the bell ring, it takes 2/10 of a second: 1/10 of a second longer. In class, I enjoyed when we repeated the experiment. Mrs. Perl dropped something and we banged the desks when we heard it and then when we perceived that we heard it. Wundt's experiment was accurate for the most part. There is obviously some difference between sensation and perception; when we hear the sound and when we realize that we hear the sound. I do not think we touched upon in class what the actual difference is between them and why it would take longer to perceive that you heard something. I have a question for anyone that wants to comment: What’s the difference?